Court:MADRAS HIGH COURT
Woman marrying person while first marriage is subsisting : In law, woman can be given recognition either as wife of man or as his concubine : There cannot be any intermediary clause described as an “illegitimate wife” : Appellant not entitled to maintenance.

Court:ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT
Maintenance : Husband Neglects Wife Without Reasonable Cause — Both under Section 125, Criminal Procedure Code and under Section 18, Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, if husband neglects wife without any reasonable cause, wife would be entitled to maintenance — Object of both sections is to provide maintenance to neglected wife — Scope and difference in two sections — Subsequent resumption of cohabitation would not affect decree of maintenance obtained by wife against her husband, unless by mutual consent husband and wife vary or cancel decree or it is cancelled by Competent Court.

Court:MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT
Circumstances — Statement of assessable income produced by revision petitioner — Proved his income increasing over years — Added circumstance of absence of specific denial in counter — Interim maintenance — Only for future and not past — Quantification made by Trial Court — Not perverse — But for the purpose of quantification granting interim maintenance — Should be governed by averments in plaint, written statement and documentary/oral evidence — Assurance by parties to co-operate with lower Court — Lower Court directed to dispose of suit expeditiously.